It is our pleasure to welcome you to participate in the 9th
International Conference on Managing Pavement Assets (ICMPA9) that will
take place in the Washington, DC metropolitan area May 18-21, 2015.
The conference will bring together pavement design and management
engineers, companies specialized in providing pavement management
services and data collection, researchers and specialists on
asset/pavement management, general pavement/ road engineers, planners
dealing with the development of public works programs, and academics
specializing in pavement design, analysis and management.

The conference is aimed at defining the requirements for the “next
generation” of pavement management tools need and to that effect it
builds upon the following theme: "moving pavement management beyond the
short-term: embracing innovation and addressing sustainability,
accountability, and improved performance." A key goal of the conference
is to fully engage pavement managers and other practitioners and
academics from around the world with best practices pertaining to
effective and innovative data collection, analysis tools,
performance-based investment strategies, sustainability, and approaches
to managing pavements and support the needs of high-level decision
makers/ CEOs.

The conference provides a unique forum to interact with colleagues from all over the world and will allow you to contribute to the shaping the next generation of approaches and systems used for managing our pavement assets.

Tanveer Chowdhury & Gerardo W. Flintsch

The Transportation Research Board (TRB), the Virginia Department of
Transportation (VDOT), Virginia Tech, the Federal Highway Administration
(FHWA), and the American Association of State Highway and Transportation
Officials (AASHTO) and the World Road Association (PIARC) are organizing the 9th International Conference on
Managing Pavement Assets (ICMPA9) in Alexandria, Virginia, located in
the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, U.S.A.

The main theme of the conference is "Moving Pavement Management
beyond the Short-Term: Embracing Innovation and Addressing
Sustainability, Accountability, and Improved Performance." The
conference will build on this theme and look into what are the short,
medium, and long-term challenges and opportunity that lay ahead for our
field.

The conference is planned to serve a broad audience, which
includes: pavement design and management engineers, companies
specialized in providing pavement management services and data
collection, researchers and specialists on asset/pavement management,
general pavement/ road engineers, planners dealing with the development
of public works programs, and academics specializing in pavement design,
analysis and management.

A key goal of the conference will be to fully engage pavement managers
and other practitioners from U.S. State DOTs, Canadian Provinces, local
municipalities and professionals from around the world to best practices
pertaining to effective and innovative data collection, analysis tools,
performance-based investment strategies, sustainability, and approaches
to manage pavements and have the support of high-level decision makers
and CEOs.